When it comes to suffering, there is no shortage of those who need help. No one can debate that God allows a lot of suffering, and His reasons for doing so are sometimes a mystery to us. Yet Scripture makes it clear that God's allowance does not alleviate us from relieving suffering when we can. On the contrary, it seems that God may allow some suffering to test our love for those who suffer—and for Him. God certainly does test free moral agents (see Ex. 16:4, 20:20; Deut. 8:16; Judg. 2:21-22, 3:1; 2 Chron. 32:31; Ps. 11:4-5; Prov. 17:3; Jer. 17:10, 20:12; Rev. 3:10).
Isn't it true that all of us—Christians and non-Christians alike—admire those who sacrifice for the sake of others? Selflessness is universally esteemed, whereas selfishness is universally despised. Yet all of us contain a mix of both. Most of us try to conceal selfishness and display selflessness in ways that don't appear to be purely a display.
Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury; for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on (Mark 12:43-44).
This is not to say that giving—motivated out of love—from one's surplus is not praiseworthy. It is just to say that "surplus givers" (like me, and most of you reading this) should be prepared to possess less heavenly treasure than the truly sacrificial givers. And we would be wise to think and pray about how we could sacrifice—and love—even more before our day comes to stand before Jesus.
But as I tried to emphasize in Part 1, we should not only think about how much we're giving, but how, when, what, why, and who we give to, so that our giving has its greatest potential impact for good. The organization that I direct, Heaven's Family, has given many millions of dollars to relieve suffering around the world over the past 16 years, and we've learned a few things along the way. We've learned, for example, that we can potentially harm the people we're trying to help. So please allow me to help you avoid some of the most common errors in this regard.
Relieving poverty is one way to relieve suffering. But when you live in a wealthy nation, defining poverty becomes difficult. So let's consider poverty from a global perspective.
According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report by Credit Suisse Research Institute, to be wealthier than half of the world's residents, you need a net worth of at least $4,210. To be in the top 10%, assets totaling $93,170 will do it.
According to the World Bank, 10% of the world's people live on less than $1.90 per day, or about $700 per year (defined as "extreme poverty"), while about half of the world's people live on less than $5.50 per day, or about $2,000 per year.
This is not to say that we should ignore America's poor. But if there were four families living on your cul-de-sac, and two of those families were living in shacks made of plastic tarps and rusty, corrugated tin and drinking out of a mud puddle, and one of those families was living in a small three-bedroom, one-bathroom ranch in need of repair, yet with electricity, air conditioning, running water, and a car parked in front, I'll bet both your family and the "poor" family in the ranch would be trying to help the other two families.
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content (1 Tim. 6:7-8, emphasis added).
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself (Jas. 2:15-17, emphasis added).
Do not worry then, saying, "What will we eat?" or "What will we drink?" or "What will we wear for clothing?" For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things" (Matt. 6:31-32, emphasis added).
It is probably difficult for most readers to imagine such a degree of poverty. In the U.S., it is experienced, at least to some degree, by America's unemployed, homeless population. Thank God for the Christian ministries that tirelessly serve and lift such folks. And praise God for the churches and believers who support them.
My point is that, when it comes to relieving suffering, it makes sense to focus most of our attention on those who are suffering the most. If you are looking for a way to invest in helping Christians, including widows and orphans, who are facing poverty that is almost unimaginable to Western minds, Heaven's Family continually serves them through all of our 20 Focused Ministries.
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you, nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you; not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example. For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread (2 Thes. 3:7-12).
Laziness can lead to poverty, which makes one dependent on other people. Those people effectively become the sluggard's slave, as they work so he can eat. The sluggard does not love his slaves as he loves himself. And for that reason, laziness is a sin, and we don't want to encourage or enable sin.
The remedy for laziness is hunger.
When relieving the poverty of the unemployed, we are wise to offer them work for which we will pay them. If you are going to give them money anyways, love them enough to give them some dignity by letting them work for your money. The alternative is to reward laziness and communicate that the recipient has nothing of value to offer…he is worthless.
Generally speaking, those who are able to work should never be given anything for free. That is a commandment from the New Testament (that we just read). If you can't think of any service that a person seeking a handout can perform for you, then pay him to serve someone who can't pay him. And don't offer a subsidized payment for "token work." Pay fairly according to actual value. Only God knows the harm that has been done to human lives by well-meaning people trying to assuage their guilt by giving handouts!
How different is America from Africa in this regard. In America, poor people stand at road intersections with signs begging for charity. In Africa, they rush to your car at stoplights to clean your windshield, hoping for a little payment for their service (although many drivers don't give them anything, as their windshields were not that dirty). No African beggar would ever expect a handout unless he is obviously handicapped, thus proving his inability to work.
And this is why Scripture often points to widows and orphans—who in developing nations are generally unable to earn what they need—as those who are worthy of our compassion.
A larger principal in this same category is to never do for others what they are capable of doing for themselves. Otherwise, we rob our "beneficiaries" of dignity and cripple them by encouraging laziness. Rather than going on a short-term mission trips to construct a church building, why not go and teach carpentry skills so parishioners can build their own church, and then perhaps earn a living with the skills they've learned?
You have no doubt heard the adage, "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime." I would alter the first clause to read, "Give a man a fish, and thus (1) teach him that food comes by appearing to be hungry when nearby people have fish, and (2) launch a generational cycle of dependency, poverty and worthlessness." The harm done by handouts far outstrips the benefits.
As we strive to relieve suffering, we should seek long-term solutions, treating the needy as we would want to be treated ourselves. In the world of "relief and development," development (that is, long-term, sustainable improvements) is always preferred, and relief (stop-gap emergency handouts), if it is necessary, should be offered only temporarily, until development efforts can begin.
This is one thing I love about Heaven's Family's Farming God's Way Ministry. We don't give money to small subsistence farmers. We offer them agricultural training that, coupled with their own hard work, can exponentially increase their harvests. And we include biblical discipleship through what are called "God's Love Groups." As they learn to become more like Jesus, they use their profits to care for widows and orphans!
The same is true for Heaven's Family's Microloan Ministry. Our borrowers first receive invaluable basic business training. Once equipped with knowledge of how to succeed, our small loans create borrowers who are our business partners, rather than the objects of our pity. They too, are required to regularly meet in God's Love Groups for business education and discipleship.
Many other Heaven's Family ministries similarly promote development through education and skills training. All 20 of our Focused Ministries have the gospel at their core.
Relieving suffering without a gospel component is what secular humanitarian organizations do—as well as Christian organizations that have drifted from their original mission. Heaven's Family will never be among them because Jesus is at the center of our Mission and Vision Statements, where He's mentioned a total of 11 times. Moreover, all of our trustees and staff members must annually affirm their agreement with our Mission and Vision statements. And our bylaws declare that those statements cannot be changed except by a unanimous vote by our trustees, three years in a row.
When a Christian physician starts a missionary hospital, in the first generation, with the founder's zeal, there is a strong Christian witness at the hospital, and a clear commitment to putting Christ first, etc. Then the founder goes to be with the Lord. So the board finds a doctor willing to do the work, but one who probably does not share the same vision or commitment to the "mission" of the hospital. The mission is now seen in more natural/neutral ways as being provision of health care, rather than a way to touch people for Jesus and bring them into the Kingdom.
Now take it one generation further, and this hospital and maybe this same 2nd-generation doctor are wondering about the role of chaplains at the hospital, and don't want them to be pushy. Maybe chaplains are taught just to "care for, but not preach," to patients. This has now become unspiritual. It is now a short step to the hospital making the decision that it is a woman's choice to have an abortion if she wishes.
And so by the 2nd to 3rd generation even Catholic hospitals, which have a strong ethic dictated to them by the Catholic Church, find themselves agreeing to do things that even violates their own statement of faith. So now there are bishops, such as I read about in Phoenix, forcing multibillion dollar hospital institutions to drop the word "Catholic" from their name because they have long stopped being Catholic.
This type of scenario is acted out all over the world where institutions that started in Christ (say, Harvard University) have now ended up as bastions of the enemy's activity.
This is one reason, among others, why Heaven's Family rarely funds any buildings (although we did in past years). Another reason is that land and buildings in the developing world are often easily sold by unscrupulous ministry directors, their heirs, or their board of directors, to pad their own pockets. Just about anywhere you may travel in poor nations, there are people waiting who will suddenly have a "burden from the Lord" to do what your ministry is funding.
At one time, Heaven's Family was funding the building of many "orphanage" buildings in Myanmar—until we discovered that most of the orphans weren't orphans at all. And when we did, most of these "orphanage" directors were not willing to cooperate with us to reunite their "orphans" with their biological families, who often lived hundreds of miles away. Their "orphanages" were sources of income for them. Some even developed orphanage franchises, because the more children and locations they had, the more money that could be generated. And all such charlatan directors need to keep the money flowing are well-meaning Western Christians who, like us at one time, didn't wonder long enough why the "orphanage" signs were all written in English rather than Burmese.
Part of our Orphan's Tear Ministry is now focused on educating other Western ministries that are financially supporting these "orphanages" about Myanmar's orphanage industry. You would be shocked to learn how many are resistant to the idea of reuniting children—fake orphans—with their actual parents. The reason can only be because of the income that is generated through their "orphan" ministries.
On the bright side, the Australian government has recently enacted legislation to greatly curb what is known as "orphanage tourism." Australia has become the first country in the world to recognize the orphanage industry as a form of modern-day trafficking and slavery. Also, the 2018 United States Trafficking in Persons Report includes a section on "Child Institutionalization and Human Trafficking," which explains that "many orphanages facilitate child trafficking by using false promises to recruit children and exploit them to profit from donations." It seems many in the secular world are listening to their consciences more closely than some Christian ministries!
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things (1 John 3:16-20).


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Pitt's Michael Young growing into solid post player
November 17, 2014 by The PSN Staff
With the graduations of both Lamar Patterson and Talib Zanna, along with the injury to guard Cameron Wright and the suspension of forward Durand Johnson, Jamie Dixon's Pitt Panthers are looking for someone to step up in a major way as a go-to-guy at the offensive end of the floor.
That guy might just be sophomore forward Michael Young.
Young led the Panthers with a career-high 20 points, making 10-of-12 field goals while pulling down five rebounds Sunday afternoon in a 63-26 victory over Samford. Young scored 14 points in the second half to help Pitt move to 2-0 on the season.
For the Panthers to contend in a brutally tough ACC, Young may have to produce many more games like we saw on Sunday.
"We had 20 assists," said Dixon. "So all of his [points] were probably bounce passes – good interior passing. I thought we did a good job of that. I just think we've got to continue giving him the ball. He's finishing well; he's a good free throw shooter. We've got to continue giving him the ball around the basket. He can step out and shoot it, but that's where he's been really good and really effective. We'll learn from that."
The signs are there that Young is starting to develop into a go-to-scorer.
There were some good signs during the Panthers trip to the Bahamas and Young looked solid during Pitt's two exhibition victories prior to Friday's opener. He got into quick foul trouble against Niagara, but still finished with seven points and seven rebounds, making 3-of-5 attempts from the floor while playing only 21 minutes.
As a freshman Young reached double figures in scoring just five times, with the only occasion in which he strung together consecutive double-digit outings coming in wins over Loyola Marymount (ten points) and Youngstown State (ten).
He will need to be more consistent this season, which is something the sophomore worked on in the offseason.
If Young can develop into a consistent post player, he is a weapon that Dixon can employ at either the four or the five.
"Over the summer I worked on all aspects of my game, just being able to be versatile," Young said early on in camp. "I knew coming into this year I was going to have to play five and four and working on being able to have a few go to moves and work the ball really well. I want the team to be able to count on me to get the job done. I am very comfortable playing both the four and the five positions, I worked really hard to be able to play both positions and I am very comfortable to play both."
When Young isn't banging down on the block, he also has the ability to stretch the floor as his jumper continues to improve as well.
"I worked on all aspects of my game in the offseason," added Young. "My jumper was one of the things I really wanted to work on. I want to make more plays for my teammates. Going forward, I am a smart basketball player and I am just going to play the game. I am going to be aggressive and take what I get."
While the competition hasn't been great to start the season, the one positive sign that we have seen from the Panthers is that they do have a lot of talent that can take the floor on a nightly basis.
However they need to find a guy that can become a legitimate star and Young has that type of ability.
We will just have to keep an eye on him to see how he develops, especially as a post player, during Pitt's non-conference slate.
Young and the Panthers could be tested when they head to Hawaii for the Maui Invitational and could face teams including Arizona, BYU and San Diego State.
"He's improving in the post," said Dixon. "Obviously it wasn't a strength of his last year but he has improved. He's more athletic, he's finishing better, and it's something that we've talked to him about. And the added thing is that he can make free throws as a big guy, and that's going to be a great asset and something that we are really emphasizing with him in terms of getting the ball inside. He's getting better, he's got to do it every day until we can see where he gets to, but he's got some tools and he's a much better player.'
Only time will tell on Young, but early on he has at least opened up some eyes.
If he reaches his full potential, the Panthers could have one heck of a player for the next couple of seasons.
Photo Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
Filed Under: D1 Basketball, NCAA Basketball Tagged With: Jamie dixon, Michael Young, Pitt panthers basketball
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Q: restful webservices with apache cxf and spring i have two classes which i want to expose as a restful web services using apache cxf and spring  but i am unable expose two web services of two different classes.i got a runtime exception while invoking second service.here are my web.xml,applicationcontext.xml and two classes which i am using in my project.plz any one fix this issue
  `enter code here`  web.xml
    --------

   <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
  "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
   "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >

     <web-app>
    <display-name>ApacheCXF Sample Application</display-name>

      <!-- Add for Spring support -->
      <context-param>
      <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
      <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
     </context-param>

     <listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-        class>
 </listener>

    <servlet>
     <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>

       <init-param>
     <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property</param-name>
      <param-value>com.iton.restExamples.ServiceOneImpl</param-value>
    </init-param>

    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
   </servlet>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>AnotherCXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>

    <init-param>
      <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
    <param-value>com.iton.restExamples.ServiceTwoImpl</param-value>
    </init-param>

    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
   </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/base/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

 <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>AnotherCXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/another/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

 </web-app>

    applicatin context.xml
    ------------------------

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <beans default-autowire="byName"
    xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/util          http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd
            http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd">

<context:component-scan base-package="com.example" />

<!-- <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-jaxrs-binding.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" />
-->
   <jaxrs:server id="restContainer" address="/">
    <jaxrs:serviceBeans>

        <ref bean="serviceOne"/>
        <ref bean="serviceTwo"/>
       </jaxrs:serviceBeans>

 </jaxrs:server>

   <bean id="serviceOne" class="com.iton.restExamples.ServiceOneImpl"></bean>
   <bean id="serviceTwo" class="com.iton.restExamples.ServiceTwoImpl"></bean>
   </beans>

   ServiceOneImpl.java
    ---------------

  package com.iton.restExamples;

  import javax.ws.rs.GET;
 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
 import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;

 public class ServiceOneImpl implements ServiceOne {

public ServiceOneImpl() {
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}

@Override
@GET
@Produces("text/plain")
@Path("/one")
public String mesgTwo(@QueryParam("msg") String mesgTwo) {
    System.out.println(mesgTwo);
    System.out.println("welcome message");

    return mesgTwo;

}

   }

   SeriveTwoImpl.java
    -------------------

    package com.iton.restExamples;

   import javax.ws.rs.GET;
   import javax.ws.rs.Path;
    import javax.ws.rs.Produces;

     public class ServiceTwoImpl implements ServiceTwo {

public ServiceTwoImpl() {
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}

@Override
@GET
@Produces("text/plain")
@Path("/two")
public String mesgTwo(String mesg) {
    mesg="Welcome";
    System.out.println(mesg);
    System.out.println("welcome message in Serive two");

    return mesg;

}

    }

A: Try using @Path annotation at class level to differentiate between the two service classes.
When you define the service beans in application context, the address for both the beans is "/".
       @Path("/ServiceOne")
       public class ServiceOneImpl implements ServiceOne {....}

       @Path("/ServiceTwo")
       public class ServiceTwoImpl implements ServiceTwo {....}

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actual transformation of the data.
nested class of this one.
there are many helpful examples in ``ticker.py``.
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There's a trend going around a lot of the natural family/organic living circles. This trend is to STOP using shampoo (or conditioner) in order to avoid all the chemical ingredients.
I've heard about it. I've read about it. I've THOUGHT about it. And I finally decided that there were too many crunchy mamas blogging about it to not try it out for myself.
For the last year, I've been trying to limit my shampoo usage anyway, as it dries out my hair and makes it really brittle. My friend Laura also suggested to me that curly-headed people do better by only using conditioner—another reason I began to limit my shampoo usage. Still, I fight with my hair quite a bit. I fight frizzies and my hair going flat. I usually have to wash every three days.
BAKING SODA + APPLE CIDER VINEGAR.
I took 2-3 tsp. of baking soda and put it in a medium sized tupperware. Then I poured approximately 2 Tbsp. of apple cider vinegar into my Camelbak bottle. At the beginning of my shower, I filled up the baking soda tupperware with warm water. Some people prefer to make a paste and rub it in, but I have SO MUCH HAIR that this just seemed daunting. So I made baking soda/water solution instead and dipped as much of my hair into it as possible. Then, I poured the rest of it over my head—slowly—to get all the roots.
I left this in while I washed the rest of my body, and then it was time to rinse. I filled up the Camelbak all the way to the top with warm water (about 24oz. water + 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar), and then I poured this through my hair to rinse out all the baking soda solution. I've heard that you can add tea tree oil to this process, as well, which I'll probably try in the future.
To my surprise, my hair felt AMAZING. I went into this experiment with no expectations. I actually thought my hair would feel dry and frizzy because I wasn't using conditioner. On the contrary, my hair is SOFTER and SHINIER than it has ever been. Also, HUGE PLUS, but I didn't need to use any mousse or product to tame my frizzies. Because I didn't use any product, my hair isn't weighted down and hasn't gone flat.
Frank tried this a day after I did, and he likes it as well. He says his hair feels softer than normal.
I'm really happy that this worked for many reasons. (1) It's all natural, and there are no added chemical ingredients. (2) My hair feels better than it ever has. It feels lighter, more voluminous, not oily and super soft. (3) I didn't have to use any product. Do you know how much mousse and anti-frizz costs?? Especially when you go through it like I do? I've got A LOT of hair. Not having to use any product is going to save me SO much money! (4) Speaking of money, you know what else is cheap and abundant? That's right, baking soda and apple cider vinegar.
12 lbs of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda: $7.57 – cheaper than a bottle of shampoo, and enough to last for over 575 washes. If I wash my hair every 2-3 days, that's going to last me around 4 years!!
Did this leave an unpleasant scent in your hair? Did the ACV leave your hair smelling like vinegar?
Trying this – are you supposed to then rinse out the vinegar?
I have to wash my hair every day and sometimes twice a day in the summer. I have very fine straight hair with bangs that get oily about halfway through the day. Do you think this method would work for me? How do I keep my bangs from getting oily? I don't even moisturize or wear make-up on my forehead?
You're probably getting really oily from all the washing you do everyday. You're scrubbing away all of the natural oils your scalp produces and everytime, it's saying, "AHHHHH. NOO. I NEED TO PROTECT MYSELF. MUST MAKE MORE OIL." So try switching to washing your hair every other day. It'll take a while to get its oil-production-stuff back on track (which will include some days of really oily hair) but just ignore it! Most people make this mistake. Listen to what your body (and scalp) is telling you!
Wow. I may have to try this. I have horribly frizzy hair, comes with the wavy thickness of it all. Will be great to save money on product that really doesn't work all that well anyway.


Senior Whitehall figures are prepared to send the SAS to a terrorist crisis without the knowledge of police, a secret document reveals.
An extraordinary and highly confidential memo distributed to a select group of senior mandarins at the Home Office outlined the policy six months after the shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and the subsequent siege at the Libyan embassy in London 35 years ago to the day next Wednesday.
The secret document was in a "debrief" file of papers on what officials described as the "wash-up" from the embassy siege. The Home Office had kept the file closed despite being more than 30 years old, and even withheld it from the National Archives.
The Home Office took just over a year to release part of the "debrief" file to the FOIA Centre after I filed a request for it under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Roy Harrington, then head of F4 Division or police department at the Home Office, wrote a closely-typed memo of two-and-a-half pages that assessed replies from other government departments and agencies to a call across Whitehall for views on lessons learnt from what they called the "Libyan incident" and for suggestions to improve contingency plans.
Harrington, who previously ran the Home Office's counter-terrorism division, stresses in the memo the importance of the role of the government liaison officer (GLO) to co-ordinate with police in a crisis like the siege at the Libyan embassy in 1984.
Appointed by the Home Office's F4 Division, a GLO ensures co-ordination between government departments and agencies on the one hand and police on the other in such an episode. The GLO links the government's crisis room at COBRA or COBR and the police commander at the scene.
In his memo to just three officials at the Home Office, Harrington explains that F4 Division has to ensure that the GLO is familiar with the specialist capabilities of the UK's military units. GLOs "serve as the bridge between the police at the scene and the military experts in COBR," he says.
The passage suggests that, with the approval of the Home Office, military or intelligence figures may decide to intervene in a crisis like the embassy siege, rather than await a police request to them for assistance.
Disclosure of the Harrington memo raises questions over who would really be in command of a comparable situation in future as Britain remains on high alert for terrorist attacks.
Last year, I revealed an unprecedented legal challenge over the refusal to prosecute a suspect in Yvonne Fletcher's murder. But, at a secret hearing, the High Court blocked a move to force disclosure of the case files.
A former police officer, John Murray, who was standing alongside Yvonne Fletcher when she was shot, is seeking to sue the suspect for compensation for the impact on him, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
I also revealed in 2017 how various VIPs had failed even to respond to an invitation to the anniversary commemoration for Yvonne, with only Libya's ambassador accepting an invite to attend.
The partly disclosed file provides a fascinating insight into how Whitehall responded to the test of its contingency plans by the killing of a young police officer and subsequent siege at the Libyan embassy in St James's Square.
Officials in Whitehall and at Scotland Yard discussed whether the police should have a liaison officer attend COBRA meetings.
But Harrington squashed the idea, saying that it would undermine the role of GLOs.
Today, I reproduce key extracts from the partially released Home Office debrief file on "lessons to be drawn" from the siege at the Libyan embassy.
Mark Watts (@MarkWatts_1) is the co-ordinator of the FOIA Centre.


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As the population continues to age, it is inevitable that more and more people will need nursing home care or substantial services in the home. The average cost of a nursing home in MA is $10,000 per month. 24 hour care at home may cost even more. Are you prepared for you or your loved one to go into a Nursing home? Follow the link for more information.
Most of my clients' are concerned with protecting their life savings for their future care and security. They want to ensure that their quality of life will not be diminished and possibly, to pass on an inheritance to their loved ones. Is this possible? Yes, but due to changes in the medicaid laws, its more important to plan early.
Medicaid is the federal program implemented by the states to provide long term care services to those who meet certain medical and financial requirements. In Massachusetts, this system is referred to as the MassHealth program. To become medicaid eligible you literally have to spend your life savings to qualify. That includes, bank accounts, certificates of deposit, stocks, mutual funds, bonds, retirement/IRA accounts, cash values of life insurance policies and more! See the dollar limits listed below.
Applying for medicaid is a long and tedious process filled with traps for the unwary. The process has become even more difficult since the recent law changes increased restrictions that make eligibility even harder. Frankly, most of our clients are all to happy to have me and my well trained staff perform this service.
For more information protecting your home and savings, and Medicare, follow the links, or contact us. You can also read my newsletter, "The Basics of Medicaid" for an abbreviated version of the rules.
Planning early is the best way to protect your assets. By using trusts, spend down strategies, annuities, real estate transfers (more about Life Estates here), obtaining veteran's benefits and, by taking advantages of various exceptions to the rules, we have met our clients' expectations of protecting their assets for their care and security. Often times, when a family finds that a loved one has a terminal illness, the security of the surviving spouse is overlooked. There are methods to protect all assets for the surviving spouse in some circumstances. I also have newsletters on "Hospice Planning", and why you should speak with an Attorney about Hospice Patients and their families.


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The breakdown of a marriage or relationship can be a difficult and traumatic process, particularly where children are involved. It changes the family structure and can reduce the daily presence and availability of one parent. It is important to support your children's well-being and rights throughout the process, to help them adjust to the separation or divorce.
Some children will need extra support to deal with the emotional impact of the change and sense of loss. Parents and children dealing with relationship breakdown can get support from:
Rainbows Ireland
Barnardos
ISPCC
Family Mediation Service
If you have decided to separate or divorce and children are involved, you will need to consider certain issues such as guardianship, custody, access and child maintenance.
Guardianship is where parents have the legal responsibility to make decisions on behalf of their child and perform duties in relation to their child's upbringing. Married parents are automatically joint guardians of their children. Neither separation nor divorce changes this.
However, a father who is not married to the mother of his child does not have automatic guardianship rights in relation to that child. You can read more about the guardianship status of fathers.
Custody refers to the day-to-day care, residency and upbringing of children who are regarded as dependent children. In custody matters, dependent children are children who are under the age of 18. In cases of judicial separation or divorce, one parent is usually granted custody. The children live permanently with the parent who has custody and the other parent is granted access to the children at agreed times (which can include overnight access). Read more about access below.
It is possible for parents to continue having joint custody of their children after separation or divorce and for the children to spend an equal amount of time with each parent, if the parents can agree and arrange this.
Access refers to your child's right to have direct contact with the parent they do not live with. It can include the child staying overnight either occasionally, on alternate weekends or during school holidays. It can also include the parent and child going on holidays together.
The parents may informally agree between themselves the arrangements for custody and access to the child.
If an agreement cannot be reached, either parent may apply to the court to decide which parent will have custody of the child and what access the non-custodial parent will have. You can make an application to the District Court, or can apply for judicial separation or divorce in the Circuit Court.
In an application for custody or access, the child's welfare is the most important factor the court will consider. Your child has a right to see both parents, and access by the non-custodial parent will only be denied if the court believes it is not in the best interest of the child. The court can set out the time, place and duration of access visits. The court can also order supervised access where another adult is present during visits, if it considers it appropriate.
If you want to get an access order, you can go to your local District Court and get the Court Clerk to issue an application for access, which will be served on the other spouse. You are advised to get legal advice and representation for this process.
There is a legal responsibility on parents, whether married or unmarried, to maintain dependent children in accordance with their means. A dependent child is a child who is under the age of 18, or 23 if they are in full-time education. Maintenance can be paid periodically (for example, weekly, fortnightly or monthly) or in a lump sum. Paying maintenance does not give a parent access or guardianship rights.
Child maintenance can be a private arrangement between you and the other parent, or if you can't come to an agreement, either person can apply to the court for a maintenance order.
You can bring an application for maintenance either in the District Court or Circuit Court (or, in exceptional cases, in the High Court).
Family mediation can help you and your ex-partner agree on child arrangements. A mediator is independent and does not take sides.
Mediation is not relationship counselling. If you know there is no possibility of reconciliation, mediation can help you agree on the details of how you'll look after your children, such as:
Where they live
When they spend time with each parent
When and what other types of contact take place (phone calls, for example)
Child maintenance payments
Mediation allows you and your ex-partner to make your own decisions, rather than going to court and having a judge make them for you. Mediation can be an effective, cheaper and quicker alternative to court.
At the end of mediation, you will get a document showing what you agreed. This agreement is not legally binding. The mediated agreement is not a legal agreement, however, you can bring this document to a solicitor to be drawn into a legal contract or deed of separation. You may also use it as the basis for a decree of divorce.
You can read more about family mediation for separating couples. You can also find more details on what mediation is and how it works in Mediation for separating couples (pdf), published by the Mediators' Institute of Ireland.
If you cannot agree on your child arrangements, you can apply to the court for the court to decide. Your child's welfare is the most important factor the court will consider.
Some family law issues are resolved without legal representation but it is always recommended you get legal advice. A solicitor who specialises in family law can help you by explaining the process and your options. Find contact information for solicitors throughout Ireland on the Law Society website.
You can also:
Find out about case progression (the management of your case before the actual hearing)
Watch a video on how to prepare for your family law hearing, and
Watch a video on what happens on the day you attend the family court
The Courts Service also has information on the use of interpreters, who and what to expect in the courtroom, and what happens at the end of a hearing.
The Family Mediation Service offers a free mediation service that helps separating couples co-operate with each other in working out mutually acceptable arrangements. The Family Mediation Service is provided by the Legal Aid Board.
The Mediators' Institute of Ireland provides a list of private accredited mediators. Private mediators charge in a variety of ways (daily rate/hourly rate/flat rate).
Legal aid and advice is available from the Legal Aid Board in family law cases to people who satisfy a means test. The Legal Aid and Advice Service operates out of law centres staffed by qualified solicitors.
If you wish to engage the services of a solicitor privately, the Law Society of Ireland maintains a list of solicitors in Ireland.
FLAC is an independent, voluntary organisation that operates a network of legal advice clinics throughout the country. These clinics are confidential, free of charge and open to all. Contact your nearest Citizens Information Centre for information on FLAC services in your area.
The Legal Aid Board
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Email: info@legalaidboard.ie
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Email: info@treoir.ie
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Breakdown of a marriage or other relationship
The breakdown of a marriage or other relationship is a difficult and traumatic process. This page outlines the issues that may arise.
Getting a divorce in Ireland
A divorce decree allows both parties to a marriage to remarry. However, special conditions must be met before a court can grant a divorce.
Legal options following marital breakdown
An introduction to the legal options following marital breakdown.


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An Evening of Story Legends in Music and Dance
November 1, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
Fisher Auditorium, IUP Performing Arts Center
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Join us for a memorable evening as the IUP Dance Theater and Music faculty present two well-known dance works, Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland and The Soldier's Tale (Histoire Du Soldat) by Igor Stravinsky.
Co-directed by Jack Stamp and Holly Boda-Sutton, these two masterful works do well to give clear understanding of why their composers will live throughout history as the greats who encapsulated the American and Russian heritage and culture of their time.
Of Stravinsky, Aaron Copland stated that "[he] proved it was possible for a 20-century composer to create his own tradition." Working during the same era, these two legendary artists developed distinctly unique musical sound worlds that would impact composers for generations to come.
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Meet Holly Boda-Sutton
A Community of Musicians - Department of Music at IUP
Variations on a Shaker Melody (From "Appalachian Spring")
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Dozens of synagogues to open to public on the 20th annual European Days of Jewish Culture: September 1
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Some of Europe's most exquisite synagogues will open to the public on the 20th edition of the annual European Days of Jewish Culture.
Among the synagogues that on Sept. 1 will be greeting visitors is the Portuguese Synagogue of The Hague. Less known than its larger and older counterpart in Amsterdam, the 18th-century Hague synagogue is more complex architecturally because it features a glass dome that spans its two buildings.
On Sept. 1, the Beth Jehoeda Liberal Jewish Community, which uses the synagogue, will host under the glass canopy a concert with cantorial flavors, Jewish Heritage The Hague wrote in a statement.
During the European events, visitors will gain access in guided tours and individual visits to synagogues that are usually closed to the general public for security reasons, as well as Jewish cemeteries and even Jewish hospitals in 25 European countries. The events seek to "combat collective forgetfulness and to dignify European Jewish heritage," wrote the Council of Europe, which coordinates the events.
North of The Hague, the synagogue of Bourtange in the Dutch province of Friesland will show off a 200-year-old stained-glass window that the building received in June. It had been part of the now-defunct synagogue in Oude Pekela.
Almost all of the Jews of Friesland, who had their own customs and dialect of Yiddish, were murdered in the Holocaust. The Bourtange synagogue, which this year hosted its second Jewish wedding since the Holocaust, will feature an exhibition on the Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp on Sept. 1.
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If you haven't cast the Center Axis rod/reel system, you should. It's one of the most interesting new products in fly fishing. It's hotly debated but I really like it. You may too. The cool news this year is the introduction of the Center Axis for saltwater. Not just supersized, there are some meaningful engineering changes to bring these rods up to saltwater standards.
Lawson is also introducing new sizes in their Cobalt reel lineup. Smaller reels for light saltwater setups that are just as at home on a trout rover. These reels are absolute tanks.
Watch the video for all of the details on cool new Lamson Fly-fishing gear for 2018.
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Q: MySQL ORDER BY with coefficient? I have a MySQL table like that :
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `story` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `date` datetime NOT NULL,
  `rating_1_nb` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `rating_2_nb` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `rating_3_nb` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `rating_4_nb` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `rating_5_nb` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `favorite_nb` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `status` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 ;

As you can see, I store the number of times a one star (rating_1_nb), two stars (rating_2_nb)... ratings have been posted on a particular story. What I want to create is a ranking of the best stories and of the worst depending on the ratings these stories got.
I would like to create an SQL query which automatically orders the stories according to their ratings. So my idea was to have a coefficient for every ratings columns so I could easily make a calculation but I'm not sure if it's a good idea, in terms of performance. Do you have a suggestion to give in order to create this particular MySQL query ?

A: For me this will make more sense, ratings with coefficient
SELECT *, ( rating_1_nb*1 + rating_2_nb*2 + rating_3_nb*3 + rating_4_nb*4 + rating_5_nb*5) as ratings FROM story order by ratings

This will be efficient and effective too.
Hope it helps you too

A: Two options:
First: Don't use a coefficient, just order by the ratings. Something like:
SELECT * FROM ratings ORDER BY rating_5_nb DESC, rating_4_nb DESC,
rating_3_nb DESC, rating_2_nb DESC, rating_1_nb DESC

This works like the ratings in the Olympic Games, where gold medals come first, then silver and so on. So every 5-star rating is more important than any number of 4-star ratings.
Second: Do some fancy calculations.
SELECT (rating_1_nb * c_1 +  rating_2_nb * c_2 + rating_3_nb * c_3 +
rating_4_nb * 4_2 + rating_5 * c_5) AS rating FROM ratings ORDER BY rating

You shouldn't worry about performance. SQL queries are heavily optimized by your DBMS. As long as you do not need a lot of joins you do not have to think a lot about your query.


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She comes up with this, is what! Because I figured that if I was going to whine about my mouth hurting from the dental adventures this past week (spoiler alert: sinus infections that spread over to your teeth are not fun), I could at least whine about it in French, and set it to lyrics.
The result? Une petite chanson qui s'appelle "Ma bouche est malheureuse"!
J'n'peux pas jouer de la flûte, le flûteau, la même chose!
De deedle deedle dum deeda deedle tabarnak!
De deedle deedle dum deeda deedle osti en calisse!
J'n'peux pas boire le vin, oh guai! J'n'peux pas boire le vin!
De deedle deedle dum deeda deedle char de marde!
I shall soon be following this up with "La fille joyeuse et son mammouth". Because Jean-Claude requires a song. REQUIRES, I tell you.
It has amused me for a while now that in the vast repertoire of tunes available to Irish musicians, several of them have vaguely SF/F-nal names, like "King of the Fairies", "Queen of the Fairies", and "The Elven Cloak".


We had a lot of fun making, and playing, with this playground set in our Kinder classes.
The children have been learning playground vocabulary such as slide, swing. see-saw as well as the verbs, run, jump, climb etc. This craft allowed them to bring all the words together as they moved their character around the playground.
Big thanks to the Welcome to Our World teacher resource book for the idea.
More books for our library. These twelve books from the Disney World of English programme were given to us by a student who no longer had a need for them.
While they're designed to used with the Disney World of English programme, on their own they still are quite usable. Each book has content rich pages featuring all your favourite Disney characters, and questions on each page encourage the child to speak English.


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While it's technically not incorrect to call an individual M&M's candy an "M&M," the brand's parent company — Mars, Incorporated — refers to each colorful…
While it's technically not incorrect to call an individual M&M's candy an "M&M," the brand's parent company — Mars, Incorporated — refers to each colorful bit of candy-coated chocolate by another term. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Do you know what individual M&M's candies are called?
(NEXSTAR) – The word "octopus" is the singular form of octopuses, and the word "spaghetto" is the singular form of spaghetti.
It should stand to reason, then, that a single candy from a package of M&M's is as an "M&M," or at least something that sounds like "M&M," right?
Well, yes and no.
While it's technically not incorrect to call an individual M&M's candy an "M&M," the brand's parent company — Mars, Incorporated — refers to each colorful bit of candy-coated chocolate as a "lentil."
"Yes, individual M&M's are referred to either as lentils or candies," a spokesperson for Mars, Incorporated, recently confirmed to Nexstar.
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Looking at the brand's official website, it's easy to see why many of the candy's consumers or casual fans might be unaware they've been snacking on "lentils" this whole time. The word seems to appear in only a few press releases, product descriptions or listings for M&M's-themed merchandise, such as the official M&M's Lentil Coin Purse, or the M&M's Drip Lentil Stud Tee.
"Lentils," however, appears to be a common term for all sorts of similarly shaped chocolate candies, with distributors and confectioners across the globe embracing the term for the last century or so. A European brand of candy-coated chocolates called Lentilky, for example, was first produced in Moravia, in the now-Czech Republic, over 110 years ago, according to the Prague Morning. And the inspiration for M&M's may have even come from a candy first marketed by Nestle as "Chocolate Lentils" in the 1930s, Mashed once reported, citing Nestle U.K. archivist Alex Hutchinson.
There's also plenty of evidence to suggest that the makers of Skittles, made by the Wrigley Company (itself a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated), refer to individual Skittles candies as "lentils," according to data from the back end of the official Skittles website, as well as trademark applications available online.
The people behind the official Twitter account for Skittles, though, once appeared to refute this notion, stating that an individual Skittles candy "is called a Skittles," despite a few confused users appearing to believe otherwise.
How much candy do Americans eat in a whole year?
In any case, the term "lentil" appears to be widely accepted in the candy industry for all sorts of chocolatey, minty, or even fruity candies with lentil-like or lens-like shapes.
Consumers should probably be happy about that, too. Before "lentils" was the default term, French confectioners in the 18th and 19th centuries made a specific type of tiny chocolate candy that is believed to be a precursor to lentil-shaped candies to come — and it had an objectively worse name.
So, what were they called? According to candy historians cited by the BBC, these early candies were known as "crottes de lapin" — which literally translates to "rabbit droppings."
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Tom J. Bordonaro Jr. (born March 22, 1959 Fullerton, California) is a former Republican California State Assemblyman who served from 1994 to 1998. He was the first wheelchair-user to be elected to the State Assembly. He left the role in 1998 after having made one unsuccessful run for Congress, in a special election against Lois Capps in early 1998 after the death of her husband Walter Capps. Bordonaro lost to Capps again in November 1998. Bordonaro is currently the San Luis Obispo County (CA) Assessor.

Born in Fullerton, California, Bordonaro graduated from California Polytechnic State University with a degree in agricultural management.

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DoD Funds New Tissue Biofabrication Manufacturing Consortium
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2016 — The Defense Department will fund an 87-member coalition to develop next-generation manufacturing techniques for repairing and replacing cells, tissues and organs for wounded service members, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics announced yesterday at the White House.
Frank Kendall introduced the winning consortium — led by the nonprofit Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, — whose industry, academic and government members will be part of the new Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Manufacturing Innovation Institute, or ATB-MII.
The institute is the 12th manufacturing hub awarded by the Obama administration, seven of them so far led by DoD.
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The LOGINN CSA aims at co-ordinating and supporting RTD projects in the logistics area to improve their capabilities to bridge the gap between pilot implementation and marketable solutions. To achieve this goal LOGINN will set up a collaborative platform (Virtual Arena) to allow the main stakeholders of the logistics domain (industry, SMEs, public authorities, investors and research organizations) to work together on promoting innovative transport logistics solutions aiming at increasing efficiency and with a particular focus on intermodal transport.
Over the past decade, several research initiatives have researched and proposed innovative solutions for transport logistics, but the level of adoption in the transport industry has been low, in particular when comparing with other industry sectors. This is due on one side to the transport industry itself, facing issues like a fragmented market structure, price pressure and a high degree of outsourcing, and on the side to the lack of dissemination to relevant stakeholders that has characterized many innovation projects logistics.
LOGINN will drive innovation adoption in transport logistics by taking a holistic approach that considers several mutually reinforcing aspects of innovation: business models, logistics practices and technologies. This approach will favour the customisation of RTD results towards industrial demand solutions, supporting the development of sustainable business plans for European RTD projects, exploiting synergies between European RTD projects to enable a seamless exchange between RTD projects and logistics stakeholders and finally enabling and supporting the access to Investors. The main results of LOGINN will be an Innovation Action Plan that will integrate the proposed initiatives for market uptake, an Innovation Accelerator and an Innovation toolbox, containing practical guidelines for transport logistics companies interested in innovations boosting intermodal transport and efficiency.


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Димитър Исаев Матлиев е български революционер, деец на Вътрешната македоно-одринска революционна организация.

Биография
Димитър Матлиев е роден в Охрид, тогава в Османската империя. Учи в родния си град, а след това - в София, където завършва пети гимназиален клас. След завръщането си в Македония е назначен за учител в село Зашле, Битолско. През април 1902 година напуска учителството и се включва в четата на Йордан Пиперката.

Заедно с Йордан Пиперката Матлиев е делегат на Демирхисарския революционен район на Смилевския конгрес на Битолския революционен окръг.

През Илинденско-Преображенското въстание Димитър Матлиев ръководи чета в Битолски Демирхисар. На 4 октомври 1903 година четата му е обградена от турски войски в местността Пещерка над село Брезово, Битолско и след 11-часов бой на 5 октомври Матлиев, заедно със селския войвода Сотир Ристев от Брезово и 8 четници са убити.

Вижте също
 Анастас Матлиев

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Родени в Охрид
Дейци на ВМОРО
Български революционери от Македония
Български просветни дейци от Македония